Blatter apologises to England and Mexico for bad refereeing decisions

Andy Rice

Andy Rice

Andy Rice is a founding partner of Yellowwood Future Architects, a marketing strategy consultancy. In his other lives, he is the southern hemisphere's only supporter of Cambridge United Football Club, and was once upon a time the South African National Spoofing Champion. He has played football at Wembley and cricket at Lord's within the same weekend, but troubled the scorer on neither occasion. Things could only go up from here.

29 Jun 2010 (South Africa)

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has offered his apologies to the England and Mexico teams for the refereeing errors that contributed to their early exits from the World Cup. Blatter said that Fifa would reopen the file on video technology at a meeting of its rule-making panel in Wales next month. We doubt this will be much consolation to England or Mexico.

Andy Rice is a founding partner of Yellowwood Future Architects, a marketing strategy consultancy. In his other lives, he is the southern hemisphere's only supporter of Cambridge United Football Club, and was once upon a time the South African National Spoofing Champion. He has played football at Wembley and cricket at Lord's within the same weekend, but troubled the scorer on neither occasion. Things could only go up from here.

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